Carl Faberge designed the first egg in 1884 for a special easter gift from Russian Tsar Alexander III to his wife Maria. With this gift, he created 2 new arts: enameling on gold and silver, and stone cutting. The technique of Faberge style enameling is very delicate and involves hand application of translucent colored enamel and then burning the enamel at high temperatures. Each Faberge egg and Faberge style pendant is made of sterling silver with 18k gold overlay and enameled by hand with multilayer enamel and decorated with gems.
